[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ret

[Gaerfindel]

On 12/1/2012 10:06 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
> > netlh DIS law' ret tIQbe' yuQvam'e' tIQ
>
> This sentence is mostly good; you just need to move the -'e' to the 
> end of tIQ (when you add a type-5 noun suffix to a noun+"adjective" 
> construct, it goes after the "adjective").
>
> Also, I'd recommend moving the {law'} to between {netlh} and {DIS}, so 
> it's "many tens of thousands of years", rather than "ten of thousands 
> of many years".
>
> > Sornganpu' HuDnganpu' lung'a'pu' loDHompu' je toq.
>
> {toq} means "be inhabited", so this means something like "inhabited 
> tree-dwellers, mountain-dwellers, dragons and boys."
>
> I recommend instead switching to {[lu]tu'lu'} ("there is"/"there 
> are"), or possibly the verb {Dab} ({luDab X Y Z je.}).
>
> > This isn't a perfect word-for-word rendering, but points to the list
> > member who recognizes the original quote and where it's from.
>
> QemjIq DabwI'?
>

majQa!!!  And thanks for the grammar lesson.

~quljIb

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